On Monday 20 August 2007, you wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I'm moving to my Nokia 770 from a Palm Tungsten C. There's only > > one issue I've found that is keeping me from dropping use of the > > Palm completely: I need to sync some apps with the apps I use in > > KDE on Linux. > > > > I've found info on GPE, but have not found enough to actually be > > able to sync the data with any KDE PIM programs. As best I can > > tell, it seems GPE uses OpenSYNC, but I'm not sure. > > > > Does anyone sync their apps on their Nokia with any Linux (and > > preferably KDE) apps? Are you using GPE? If not, what is > > recommended? > > > > I don't use a calendar or to-do list, but I would like to sync my > > contacts and notes back and forth. I'm looking into just using a > > Perl program and scp to sync data. I figure in some cases it'll be > > easy to copy a file back and forth and change the format, but often > > full sync features in programs take care of other issues, such as > > comparing what has been added on both ends and making it easy to > > decide which one to accept and, to be honest, that's just a pain to > > program. If someone else has done the work, I'd rather use that. > > > > Are three any guides to apps I can use that sync with KDE PIM apps? > > (I've Googled and come up short.) Are there recommendations for > > any apps to use that have the sync tools built in? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Hal > > I've used GPE, OpenSync, and Evolution, but I know there are K-app > sync plugins for OpenSync and so I'd imagine with just a little > experimentation my instructions would apply. > http://cleardefinition.com/page/Sync_Evolution_and_GPE_on_N800/ is > the link (don't be fooled by the name - It should work on a 770 just > as well). The step you'd need to change is in "*Set up > MultiSync-Gui/OpenSync on Desktop"*, 4. "Add Member", "Evolution > 2.x". From what I see on the OpenSync web page, you'd select "kdepim" > there. (This would sync calendar, todo, and contacts, I believe - > make sure that you choose to compile the kdepim plugin if you build > OpenSync yourself.) > > For synchronizing notes, since those are just simple files (actually > HTML files that import great into AbiWord on the desktop for > converting to any format you like), you might try Unison - it's kind > of a like a two-directional "rsync", if you've heard of that. I've > never gotten Unison to work for me, but I've only put about 3-5 > minutes into trying > > :) If you only want to transfer notes from 770 to desktop, following > > the steps to set up the SSH needed in my guide will get the tough > stuff for rsync set up easily. Then, just install rsync on both 770 > and desktop, and install Grsync (or a comparable KDE app) and sync to > your heart's content! (I've done this - works well. Your documents > are in /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/ I believe.) > > Good luck! If you get these syncs to work out, let me know and I'll > update my guide so that I don't leave out the KDE folks. > > Ryan
